Nutting Alissa - Tampa A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In this sly and salacious work Nutting forces us to take a long unflinching look at a deeply disturbed mind and more significantly at society's often troubling relationship with female beauty. - San Francisco Chronicle In Alissa Nutting's novel Tampa Celeste Price a smoldering 26 - year - old middle - school teacher in Florida unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14 - year - old student. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth - grade teacher and most importantly willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship car rides after dark rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works the late shift and body - slamming erotic encounters in Celeste's empty classroom. In slaking her sexual thirst Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation a monstress of pure motivation. She deceives everyone is close to no one and cares little for anything but her pleasure. Tampa is a sexually explicit virtuosically satirical American Psycho esque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose Alissa Nutting's Tampa is a grand seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut.
Title: Tampa A Novel
Author(s): Nutting Alissa
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062280589
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/4/2014